Says there's no precedent for media sellout to Obama

4:35 PM,
Feb. 15, 2013

Written by

Jerome Lorenz, Mills River

President Nixon was hounded from office for covering up a second rate burglary and suppressing 18 minutes of tape, ostensibly, proving his complicity. The press was outraged, fuming in print and sound, until he resigned from office or was impeached. Please note that no one died in this scandal. Now, 40 years later, it's the press that has resigned its obligation to inform and engage the people. From the day that candidate Barack Obama entered the scene, the press has, in my opinion, been his worshipful client, disparaging any criticism of him as racist. There is no precedent for this sellout. ...